Wouldn't what be Navy blue mate.. his uniform or the colour of the helicopter? Question is.. what exactly is Navy blue? I could dig my old N0.1 suit out of the loft and try to RGB it I guess
You know as well as any what FS does to colours, certain colours anyway and it's been a bugger getting the Police 'blue' to look 'in sim' as it does in phots. The original pilot wears orange btw. This was jobbed by someone along the way to look more beige which isn't suitable for anything really.
The pilot figure has defined left and right parts (his legs for example) but his torso/arms are mirrors.. is arms certainly. This is why you can put a badge on one arm and it'll appear on the other too but mirrored. His torso is a little different in that one half has it's own defined map but the other half tends to pull off the right arm so I couldn't get the flying suit chest badge onto the correct side.. it kept pulling off to the right.
You mention his helmet Paul and I explained this in the other thread. Only the 'Med' model comes with pilots/flying crew wearing helmets.. the other two do not. One model is like the Med but without the med gear and only one flightcrew.. no helmet. The other model is more like the Police versions and comes with the correct skids and a 'civvie' inside. The 'like' med model has med skids but no med interior. Like the med, it has a fahookin huge wire cutter on the front. Of the 3, the VIP is the closest to our Police helicopter.. correct skids, no wire cutter e t c but has a civvie pilot, completely civvie interior and a window in the LH rear clamshell door. Of course, it has no external camera/light fit as it's a civvie model. There is no Police model as such. I guess the Gendarmarie must use civvie fit helicopters
To be honest, had someone not already done UKPF paints for it, I'd not have bothered but it seemed like a good idea at the time
I took the NI paint on as it's exactly the same layout as POLA. All I had to do was remove things (ec135 lettering, Eurocopter wording and logo, finlet chequer) change the reg and force badge and that was it. Along the way, I thought I'd change the colour too but that was straight forward.. I duplicated the 'dark blue' layers and block filled the dupes in with the darker blue/black
NMID will be different as the yellow upper fuse is completely different so I'll have to add new layers and paint to match
I could of course stop right here as no matter what I do, the model will be wrong.. no lights, no camera, only one flight crew and he doesn't wear a lid, window in rear clamshell door e t c, blah blah blah
The MD902 is a doddle by comparison as it is, intrinsically, a 'Police fit' even though it's not quite the same as ours.
Anyway.. Vista on this laptop has just shown the temp drop to -4 here so I'm off to put my cold feet on the missus
ATB
DaveB
